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Article: Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History.
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and History, by Missy Dehn Kubitscheck. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991, xxiii, 203 pp. $30.00 cloth, $14.95 paper;
Contemporary African-American women writers have often complained, justifiably, that they grew up feeling cheated out of a part of their heritage by virtue of the fact that their formal education excluded, largely or completely, literature by black Americans. Discovery of their literary forebears was generally an informal and often a lonely enterprise. Tracing the motherlines in particular became for some a labor of love and a source of psychic healing. All three of these books ...